Support services for foreigners, including ticket sales and ID checks, need to be upgraded to match China's rising status on the world stage, said Yang Hao, a professor in rail transportation management at Beijing Jiaotong University.
Yang Jingwen, a migrant worker in Beijing, is considering returning to her hometown of Xinyang, in Henan province, for Spring Festival by bus instead of train after she failed to book a rail ticket.
The launch in December of high-speed rail lines linking Guangzhou with Nanning and Guiyang should make it easier for millions of migrant workers to travel home to Southwest China during Spring Festival this year.
Fu Xiuqin struggles to find sawdust and cypress twigs in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, so that she can smoke bacon in the runup to Spring Festival.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying urged non-parties on Thursday to stick to an objective and impartial stance over the South China Sea issue.
The annual central conference on political and legal work expressed the authority's determination on Wednesday to clean up the negative influence on the legal system from corrupt former security head Zhou Yongkang.
A senior official from China's television regulator said on Wednesday that "unhealthy images" are the reason a TV drama about the country's only known empress, Wu Zetian, was edited.
China's State-level bone marrow bank has facilitated 183 overseas donations involving 19 countries and regions including South Korea, the United States and Germany, the Red Cross Society of China said at a news conference on Wednesday.
A lack of focus on the drug problem and insufficient help for addicts are the biggest obstacles police face in tackling drug-related crimes, according to the Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday.
A camera set up in the Fengyongzhai National Nature Reserve photographed a rare snow leopard twice this month, the first time a snow leopard was seen in the reserve.
Europe's investment climate remains attractive to Chinese investors, despite recent crises that took financial markets by surprise, experts said.
Pilgrimages are now under stricter management and supervision in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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